Amended in Assembly April 10, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1832

Introduced by Assembly Member Ian Calderon

February 18, 2014

An act to amend Section 22505.5 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1832, as amended, Ian Calderon. Ticket sellers: equitable begin delete online end delete ticket buying process: sale or use of circumventing software.

Existing law provides that a person who intentionally uses or sells software to circumvent a security control or measure on a ticket seller’s Internet Web site that is used to ensure an equitable ticket buying process is guilty of a misdemeanor. begin insert Existing law also provides that a violation of the laws regulating ticket sellers is a misdemeanor. end insert

This bill would begin delete remove end delete begin insert instead make it unlawful for a person to intentionally use or sell software to circumvent a security control or measure that is used to ensure an equitable ticket buying process, thereby removing end insert the limitation that the software be used to circumvent a security control or measure on the ticket seller’s Internet Web site.

By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandate local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 22505.5 of the Business and Professions
Code is amended to read:

22505.5.  

Notwithstanding Section 22503.5, 22503.6, 22504,
or 22511, begin insert it shall be unlawful for end insert a person begin delete who end delete begin insert to end insert intentionally
begin delete uses end delete begin insert use end insert or begin delete sells end delete begin insert sell end insert software to circumvent a security measure,
access control system, or other control or measure that is used to
ensure an equitable ticket buying begin delete process is guilty of a
misdemeanor. end delete begin insert process. end insert

SEC. 2.  

No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of
the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within
the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.